In 356 B.C., a Greek psychopath by the name of Herostratus set fire to the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus in order to immortalize his name. Hence the phrase: to pursue a Herostratic honor.

In 2008 A.D., a rather inscrutable individual was elected president of the United States and proceeded without delay to covet and acquire a more or less identical distinction, intent on destroying the temple of constitutional liberty under the rubric of a “fundamental transformation.” Of course, there is more to it than simply desiring a historic reputation by whatever means at his disposal. It has become obvious that the president is a confirmed Alinskyite seeking to replace a functioning republic with a socialist mega-state. His leftist friends and mentors, now well-known, along with his policies and activities make this a more than reasonable assumption.

But there is likely another factor at work, as many have come to suspect: namely, a deep resentment of the usages, principles, and geopolitical behavior of the nation he ostensibly governs and for which he relentlessly apologizes. It appears he has done everything in his power to bring it to the very brink of ruin, alienating its allies, courting its enemies, surrounding himself with incompetents, toadies, petty despots, and neo-Marxists, introducing fiscal programs that have only exacerbated the most devastating economic crisis since the Great Depression, rendering the borders of the nation permeable to a veritable invasion of “illegals” and criminal elements, cutting back on its military hardware, and “reaching out” to an Islamic world whose inroads into the American body social he has thereby materially facilitated.

Given his manifestly unpresidential comportment, including a lifestyle of “fun and games” while a country groans, it is hard to resist a contemporary analogy. Assuming it is not Herostratic fame he is after but the destruction of free-market republicanism, Obama is the living incarnation of ideological malware. He is like a Stuxnet-bearing USB memory device inserted into America’s political operating system and gradually but ineluctably infecting the entire network, from foreign policy to almost every aspect of domestic management, turning the state against itself. Like Stuxnet, the president appeared on the scene without much, if any, in the way of prior warning, exploiting the flaws and vulnerabilities in the system, reprogramming the governing process with the help of default passwords, that is, fine-sounding slogans, and mutating through the software of administrative command. No one has yet come up with an effective counteragent or a way to patch the loopholes in the legislative architecture. The “worm” continues to seize control of its target, replicating from node to node along the democratic circuitry which nerves the country, with something like the same insatiable appetite of the “great Worm” in Dante’s third circle of the Inferno, rending “the people embogged about his lair.”

While some will view this article as tongue-in-cheek, it surely is closer to the truth than anything else.

Consider:While Stuxnet’s ultimate goal is to disable the Iranian Hitler’s genocidal project-by ANY means possible-Obama’s goal has ALWAYS been to implode the US system, via ‘transforming’ the US, under the mantra of ‘hope and change’.

Both worms-Stuxnet and Obama-operate via stealth, and it is the sneakiness of their attacks which assures the lethal outcome.

Whereas Stuxnet is ultimately a life saving worm, Obama’s goal is to implode the miserable (US) house from within, similar to the underpinnings of the Charter of the Muslim Brotherhood.

To extrapolate further, if a US President (ab)uses his position as the leader of the free world to prop up third world dictators,bowing down to Saudi spreaders of Wahabbi Islam,and staying silent while Iranian freedom seekers try to break free,(and on and on…) the only logical conclusion is, that the worm infecting the White House is NOT a supporter of freedom, but one closely aligned with US enemies.

While Obama is the protagonist, the worm up front, the question remains, who is the hacker?

Anyway a lovely piece with enough poetic license to just get by in Canada. Just don’t go enumerating the necessary DLLs for dynamically linking those activists, the drivers of the system and the executables so exposing one’s “phobia”.

“It appears he has done everything in his power to bring it to the very brink of ruin, alienating its allies, courting its enemies, surrounding himself with incompetents, toadies, petty despots, and neo-Marxists, introducing fiscal programs that have only exacerbated the most devastating economic crisis since the Great Depression, rendering the borders of the nation permeable to a veritable invasion of “illegals” and criminal elements, cutting back on its military hardware, and “reaching out” to an Islamic world whose inroads into the American body social he has thereby materially facilitated.”

And people are noticing this just now? This is what liberals do. This is what they are and this is what they are good at, destroying this nation and trying to make sure that we are no better than the worst Europe has to offer. This is what comes of electing a person with absolutely NO experience in running anything and putting into power an individual raised on socialist ideas in both acedemia and in his private life. This is the complete opposite to what made this nation great and this guy is determined to destroy it by making sure that his socialist ideas can be carved into stone before he gets thrown out of office.

And he will. People like this are a menace to the Constitution and to the survival of this nation. He has already forced us down the path of economic ruin, but there still is hope. If we can put in a Republican Congress in 2010, at least it will stop the bleeding until he can get thrown out of office in 2012. But if Obama gets clobbered in the midterm elections, watch out for the Lame Duck Congress. The Democrats may feel that they have nothing to lose and may literally go for broke before January, when the new Congress comes in. It just could happen and I would put nothing beyond Pelosi and Reid. We must watch out for this and raise the alarm if it does happen.

..a deep resentment of the usages, principles, and geopolitical behavior of the nation he ostensibly governs..

The first step to the antidote is to stop avoiding the root causes.

Obama hates the United States of America and everything it stands for. Obama especially hates white people and Jews.

Obama was raised and educated by two fanatical religions both of which are consumed by and dedicated to those same beliefs; [1.] Islam and [2.] Black Liberation Theology.

That explains Obama, but not the root cause.

The root cause is that enough people in our nation were stupid enough to elect Obama in the first place. Obama has not done nor said one thing outside of the boundaries of what those people explicitly authorized him to do.

David – an excellent analysis. How can someone from Canada, where the population generally dislikes the American idea, and a poet, which generally means a leftist, be so right about what is going on here.

Thank you for your clear and original writing. It is worth a lot more than you are paid.

Well put, but a lot of us have been saying this about Captain Wonderful for going on 2 years or so now. It is gratifying – and encouraging – to finally start seeing others – especially in print – beginning to wake up and smell the fascism.

Yea, good piece. If you’re not into all the computer-related stuff you could just kick it old school and just say that his election was a Trojan Horse (old meaning and new meaning). A huge deception that was designed to destroy the nation from within.

These charges are so grand and vague it is hard to work up any enthusiasm for them. He’s like a virus! He’s like a psyhcopath! This is venom without any fangs — doesn’t even puncture the skin. How about some evidence? That would be a good start. Take one charge: he has alienated our Allies. What are you talking about? As much as I despise the predicatbly European reactionary anti-Americanism, politician and citizens alike speak glowingly of Obama and have almost completely changed their obstructive posture. In 2 years!!
Bush started and promoted the stimulous spending. As much as a think stimulous spending is a remedy more damaging than the disease, this is not a moster of his creation nor the first to deploy it.

” European reactionary anti-Americanism, politician and citizens alike speak glowingly of Obama and have almost completely changed their obstructive posture. In 2 years!!

DoublespeaK?

Is there a little doublespeak in speaking glowingly of Obama as he graciously lowers his name on the foreign policy marquis and applauds as France, Germany and England take center stage? Not to mention Putin’s delight in US self-emasculation. They love him. Deed they do.

Feeding the monster?

” … this is not a monster of his creation nor the first to deploy it.

Let me see. The argument is that if X is not the creator of failed policy Y then X is not to be criticized for continuing/doubling down on Y?

This is good word play, and it would be funnier if it were not so scarey truthish. . . .And the sword-like-teeth of the giant worm shall be called social justice and they shall redistribute the wealth of the nation into a more perfect unity and fertile loam. . .” Can we have Marxist Malware?

There are times when the Republican/Savior//Democrat/Devil nature of this site is just over the top. While Mr. Solway is a brilliant writer, I simply don’t believe that the US power elites are appalled by Barack Obama and trying desperately to figure out a way to stop his destructive policies. They either don’t care much about them or passively support them.

This is an aggravating and politically damaging aspect of partisanship. When you demonize your political opponents as a class (‘Democrats’, ‘liberals’) – and vice-versa – a great deal of avoiding of responsibility is enabled. So all the lyricism and political poetry from Solway, VDH, etc., does damage as well as good. At a certain point it becomes compensation for an inability to stop trends or make corrective changes in events and realities that go well beyond Barack Obama.

To some extent yes.
But you neglect a major element in your thesis except by implication: Obama and his team were CHOSEN for the field available. Rubber stamped as the standard bearer of the “Democrats”. Who and WHY. Those who made the decision MUST have known about his personal and social provenance.And in all probability knew things that are not yet pubic knowledge, EVEN to those who beat the drums and blew the trumpets for his march to the White House. Whether or not these “liberals” /”democrats ” are demonised is of small import if it does bring out that there is truly something “rotten in the State”, and efforts are made to find the rot and dig it out. This of course, as you say depends on persons in a position to do so, and their courage to stick their necks out in this service.

Perhaps THAT IS the MAJOR PROBLEM.
WHERE ARE SUCH PERSONS, WHO ARE THEY, This “Hercules” to clean the Augean Stables of the American Congress, Court and Executive. While a Constitutional Republic, such a fundamental house cleaning cannot be left to the People alone.THEY have made a start, but only a start.
WHERE IS THAT HERCULES. OR Androcles to remove this thorn, this rot that is devouring the body politic of the Lion of Nations

I don’t deny that Obama had powerful enablers. I do have trouble with the idea that George Soros or anyone else singled-handedly brought Barry, though Soros and others contributed.

I’ll stick by what I wrote, though. Solway is justifiably troubled and threatened by Islam. We all are. That does not mean, however, that cleaning house will, well, clean house. The house has lots of dust in it.

I will be more specific – if Romney, Gingrich, Huckabee or one of a larger group becomes President of the US, nothing much will change in terms of the fundamental position vis-a-vis Islam. Nor is the coddling of Jihad-enablers the only major problem, but it’s related to the types of activities that people like to ascribe to ‘The New World Order’ (a term that has some meaning but is also over-used).

In more basic terms, it’s hard to see a single prospective President, save perhaps Palin and a few others, who would take on the status quo. Ronald Reagan tried. The circumstances of his attempted assassination are also troubling, and the event itself is one of many occurrences that raise doubt about the truth of reporting and what really goes on in political and security spheres in this world. BTW, I have caught flak for saying Palin will be a poor candidate. But if she should win the Presidency, I really question her ability to make real change.

All of the claptrap about Palin being elected our President is a result of the MSM seizing upon any wind-blown straw-like wisp to create some self sustaining source material. Forget her, she’s a lightweight whose 14.375 minutes of fading, fleeting, fame are forgettable.

Steve, Virginia too, Dubya is not the subject here.
Obama is a catastrophe! Don’t try to change the subject.
The article is true and correct, but leaves out the spiritual implications of islam, which requires all to become its adherents, on an “or else” basis. To do so one must repudiate his own convictions or be slaughtered. This is basic islam; not just some “extremist” position. Do you want to live under sharia law? Really?
Ladies, do you want your husband to behave as promiscuously as he wishes while you become only a piece of his personal property?
Folks, look at life in islamic countries. A handful of oilrich and the rest sucking for it and living in fear of torture and death.

You sixty million plus who blindly put the monster in power, are bound to wake up and take him out at the polls!Ship his worthless backside back to Kenya.And then undo every single thing he has done. And then some.

And yes, Dubya was awful; a liar, moron, coward, thief, traitor, usurper and a stealth supporter of the global jihad. Perhaps his pit in Hell will be close to Obama’s?

President Malware has a purpose: To get us all to delete our operating system and replace it with his: socialism, statism and total control software. This Malware came in undercover, declaring itself to be a virus protector. Yet while it started using up all system resources, slowing the operating system way down, it kept proclaiming the system is safe and protected while it was taking down firewalls, inviting in Trojans, key loggers and spyware. We know this because our “stuxnet” truth software has been installed, this truth software rounds up the malware, Trojans, key loggers, spyware and allows the choice to isolate or delete. Exposing the evil software is critical, deleting the evil software is imperative. The truth software requires vigilance, patience and of course a desire to know what truth is in the first place. Truth software should continue to learn forever. The pressure is on to delete our operating system and start over but the truth reveals our operating system was founded on the truth and is still the best there is. When greater truth comes our operating system will migrate to the new system because it is designed to respond to the truth. President Malware’s operating system is based on lies and deception and has destroyed many nations and people who did not know or love the truth. Nice job Mr. Solway.

You’re closer than you think. There is an overwhelming amount of circumstantial evidence that Obama is a Russian SVR mole. Ridiculous? Do your own investigation. One way to get remove him from office would be to find the hard evidence. That might have been possible till Sergei Tretyakov was killed a couple months ago.

I recall reading that BHO, through his mother’s Russian connections, was very close to some influential Communists.
Rex, what makes you believe that he would benefit from a hit on Sergei?Any tidbits would be illuminating.
What seems very clear, is that the two groups who benefit most from the purposeful collapse of the US economy are the Russians and the Islamists he is so fond of not naming.

An excellent column to say that our president is a subversive.
True, judging from what he is doing.
But the problem is that someone knew all that and has helped him and his administration to get to the White House.
I mean, we don’t have a problem with a single man, we have to do with multiple levels of conspiracy: there are the hard core marxists in the universities, the idiot liberals in the media, the saudis and their money (that is, our money), SSoros and his money (that is, the money he stole on the financial markets).

And these forces are not gonna easily accept the results of elections that would put them in serious danger.

We have to win the elections, we have to win big. And we have to be very vigilant.

The “Worm Obama” took a proven strategy that Ronald Reagan used against the USSR and turned it against the country that had given him everything. He is spending us into 3rd World Status with the help of crazed Democrats. If our country survives, the Democrats have to be shut from power for at least 50 years, they have allowed, aided and abetted the “Worm Obama”and has to pay for helping to ruin the country. Those still in office after this election have to be hounded out of office. What a bunch of criminals we have in Congress worse than pedophiles.

This is funny, because I have been saying for a while that what the US needs is a hard drive wipe followed by a re-install of the operating system known as USConst 1.0.

The entire system is a wonderful and workable operating sytstem that has become horrendously clogged with regulations, bureaucracies, and dead hands, just as an operating system builds up the equivalent over time.

And what is a primary impetus for just such a wipe? Well, when a particularly insidious virus gets a grip, many of us just chuck the whole system and re-install, don’t we?

Of course, analogy fails me here, as it is hard to picture what a U.S. “hard drive wipe” would look like. I’m not too sure it sounds all that pleasant.

What’s the point of writing words, an article, having comments, using electrons to display this? You are basically just going “Obama SUX!!” over and over again. There’s no content, just assertion: Obama SUX. Look, all of you agree he SUX, why waste your time writing that you agree? Just get together and chant “Obama SUX!” with each other, wear diapers, and jerk off in a circle.

What’s the point of writing words, an article, having comments, using electrons to display this? You are basically just going “Obama SUX!!” over and over again. There’s no content, just assertion: Obama SUX.

They didn’t say Obama SUX!!! They said Obama is a Subversive Worm – President Malware.

Now I would say “Obama Sucks” because it flows so much more smoothly off the tongue than Obama is a subversive worm or President Malware, and I’m too lazy. But Obama Sucks? I can say that fast five times.

Not inconsistent with a lot of rather literary analysis/criticism out there perhaps, but the main thing is Barack Hussein Obama will not go down in history to overshadow Caligula — for the cure of him an what he represents we need not surrender the nation, the Constitution, or our posterity. We can end it here and now.
We just need to bring Shariah Law to those who claim they want it.
We need to bring Alinsky to every single Aliskyite who has assumed powers to which they have no legitimate claim.
Of all the nations of history, Americans have always had the means to bring justice to the unjust; with war brought to our soil, we can and will bring it to a quick close without needing the enemy to wear red coats.
We were born free — not born to submit.
May God have mercy on their souls.
Molōn labe

The antidote to Obama and the Democratic Socialist party is Federalism. We all know large percentage of what the Federal government does is done without Constitutional authority and Obama has merely piled on. So the answer is enough GOP Governors with enough guts to say “no” and simply refuse to enforce unconstitutional legislation within their borders. Yes the Feds will try to force the states into complying by withholding money from the states. But how much of the Feds largess is simply money being recycled back to the state governments from the states’ own taxpayers? The remedy to that is to pass state legislation mandating that all federal tax dollars first go to the state treasury from which the state will deduct what it would expect to be returned to it and then send the rest to DC. The Constitution doesn’t specify how income taxes are to be collected, just that they’re allowed to be collected. We will all regain our freedoms a lot faster if we can act through our states.

“President Stuxnet” – Beauty. Leave it to a Canadian, eh? Using what Hollywood calls “high concept”, you have deftly captured the essence of the man and his incredibly destructive administration. This idea could live forever.

November won’t matter much, ultimately.
48% of us pull the wagon and write the checks
52% ride and get those checks, and the wagon is getting bigger
My president knows this: the party that steals from Peter to pay Paul can count on the support of Paul
And he gets another 4 years to pound this spike into our hearts
Until we reverse this we are so screwed

I agree with those commentators who do not see any possibility at the present time to “clean the house” of the US Government. NONE of those who proclaim themselves potential “saviours” can be so considered.They are, almost to a man/ woman, with some exceptions, tarred with the “pitch” of present political parties / system association as it has developed for the past century,since the Guns of August. Aggressively since the intrusion of the “revolutionaries” of the 1960s onto the political stage.

Anyone worth his salt, even for a “place in history”, would hesitantly consider martyrdom at the hands of a self-proclaimed, completely dissolute knee-jerk priesthood in propaganda and educational institutions. Without assuring that he/she had honourable associates,proven outside politics as capable, honest,and willing to do what is necessary for upright, smooth running of the nation. In other words, anyone but professional politicians, criminals, and their dependent hangers-on. This is of course no solution to the urgency of action to forestall further damage to the nation by Obama and his cohorts.

I also believe that to call for new Constitutional Amendments is a get out of jail free card. The major destruction to the American Polity by the politicians in this past half to full century has been THE FAILURE OF THE ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES in ALL THE ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES OF THE GOVERNMENT : LEGISLATIVE, JUDICIARY AND EXECUTIIVE,with that exeption from 1980-88, to uphold the oath THEy ALL TAKE on receiving the mantle of representative. Instead,in the main lawyers, using legalese, weakened /undermined the clauses most vulnerable to gull the public to their program to CHANGE the nation. e.g. the gender and race amendments. Obama is merely the culmination, the triumphant symbol of their long engineered intent for the CHANGE of the nation

Read as it is written, all those rights are contained in the Constitution Lawyers apparently find it easier in collusion with others in their closed shop to “Change” the LAW rather than to do their job and protect and uphold it. By such actions ,example, encourage the same in the population.

Heady with the unaccountable power loaned to them by an inattentive and lazy population they overstepped their charter in these past 50 years, turning IN LAW citizen against citizen in every possible way ALWAYS FOR THEIR OWN GOOD, compassion, fairness and equality. ALL ALEADY IMPLICIT in the CONSTITUTION, without need for amendment.As they have passed laws, WITHOUT AMENDMENT, questionably lawful on constitutional terms.

The Constitution of the USA with its Bill of Rights, AS LAW, is THE FIRST PRINCIPLE of the USA as nation and people. Is it too much that “intelligentsia”, “educators”, the “representatives” of the nation respect that FIRST PRINCIPLE and honour it in their students? Or is that pie in the sky thinking ?

That they accept the powers they have from the population are LOANED, NOT given. With an expiration date, i.e. not permanent sinecure, e.g. tenure.

That representation of people in governance is a job of SERVICE NOT OF RULE.
Service for everyone in the household, without privileges for favourites or prodigals.

THAT would be a CHANGE, to provide real HOPE in the USA — AND the world.

CHANGE from the present aberration, return to roots (RADICES) of the nation: the Constitution and Bill of Rights for ALL the citizens without any descriptive, except citizen.

Cute idea for an analogy, but completely botched and misdirected: President Stuxnet flew off in an helicopter on January 20th, 2009, but we’re still dealing with all the trouble and damage he caused while he was active.

In the meantime the people responsible for infecting this country with President Stuxnet are planning a new version of it for 2112, and hope to weaken, if not completely disable, the anti-malware measures that got put in place afterwards, starting this November.

*It infects, and the infections replicate; it steals our money by every means possible; its remnants are extremely hard to clean up; it is full of false advertising. It just popped up out of nowhere and said it would fix everything. Instead it is making us crash.

As to the very clever article that generated the comments above, I enjoyed it very much as I think that its metaphor matching is original and quite fitting. Of course, I agree with it in principle. But the more important point is that our country is not a PC, and we can’t really wipe the “hard drive” and re-install our original constitutional framework with the ease of an IT professional working on his desktop.

The vote this November, and the one in 2012, are critical to the beginning of a long and difficult process that will take generations of work in order to truly succeed. First, we must win all the seats we can in those Congressional elections and, hopefully, the Presidential one as well. But that alone will not suffice. It is the minds of a great many Americans, not just the party affiliations of our elected officials, that need to changed, or perhaps awakened would be a better choice of words. What are now accepted interpretations of the Constitution to so-called legal scholars are much of the time unapologetically and diametrically opposed to the letter and spirit of that actual document. Those rulings, left unchanged, along with the power and opinions of the throngs of school teachers, higher ed academics and their ignorant and inexperienced student victims, trade unionists, race hustlers, illegal immigrants, mainstream media reporters and pundits, Islamists, outright Socialists and Communists, internationalists, suburban RINO and nominal Democrat types trying to be “nice,” third-world special pleaders, environmental extremists and their know-nothing dupes, Malthusians, militant atheists and Hollywood’s leftwing cadres – just to name a few – will all oppose any permanent reckoning with the Federal Goliath as it now stands. One or two helpful election results will only delay or slightly reverse the very powerful slide we have been in since at least the early twentieth century towards a complete disintegration of real personal liberty and an American Constitutional Republic. I’m not completely pessimistic about the prospects for liberty; I just want to set a cautionary tone here. We want no violence, no counter-productive hot revolution, so, realistically, we must be ready to toil in the fields of politics and popular culture, never letting up on the pressure for REAL change, for decades to come, not just a couple of years. It took nearly a century of wrong-headed thinking and duplicitous politics to get us where we are now, and it will probably take us nearly just as much time to get us out. Obama is a symptom, not a cause.

Barry Dunham is presently on a stepping stone to the world stage. A second term is simply a waste of time. It is in his interest, however, to run for reelection, so as to be CHEATED out of a second term. The legacy media will provide this important story line. On the world stage he will be with his peers, folks of similar vision. He will then manage to present as Good Cop, in contrast to more presumably malevolent Bad Cops.

A single term manages to make clear his vision for America. He can later repeatedly reflect on how his wonderful endeavor was rejected and subsequently sabotaged. Also, democrats in general and liberals/socialists in particular can carry forth his cause. Presently he is a Marxist in socialist clothing. By not having to win reelection he can more aggressively pursue his agenda, and also this manages to demonstrate who are his true believers(who is willing to go down in flames?)